... What would it be like to stand on the surface of another world, to look all around you, and to try to figure out how this world got there? ... In 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission, astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan found out first hand. Earth Rise . ... The crew, consisting of Frank Borman, James Lovell, and Willian Anders, were launched atop a Saturn V rocket on December 21, circled the Moon ten times in their command module, and landed back on Earth on December 27. ... December . ...